My name is Annika Horne and I’m a filmmaker and singer-songwriter from Texas, now based in New York City.

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My films weave together journalism and history. I’m currently working on The Vanishing Point, an investigative series about how funding cuts are reshaping American science, featuring interviews with researchers at NASA, NOAA, and NIH-supported labs.

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I am also working on a documentary about Mimi Korach Lesser, a young woman who traveled to Europe at the end of World War II to work as a portrait artist for the USO. I have received funding from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University for this film which will follow Mimi through Europe in 1945, where she witnessed the aftermath of the Holocaust, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and the aerial bombing of Europe. The film will also explore the broader cultural role of the USO. To learn more about Mimi, you can see my blog post here. 

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My short documentary Flying in the Dark, used animation and firsthand accounts to tell the story of women in aviation from World War II to the present. It was an official selection of the Austin Film Festival and the Brooklyn Film Festival, and was funded by the Austin Film Society. My original screenplay based on the history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots was a Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival screenplay competition. 

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Chapel, a short documentary I directed about the multifaith chapels at the JFK Airport was funded by Inwood Art Works and premiered this Spring at the Inwood Film Festival. 

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I grew up singing country music in Texas, where I had the chance to open for Wynonna Judd and perform across the country. These days, I perform regularly in New York as a jazz vocalist and singer-songwriter.